Staffing Patterns of Non-ACGME Fellowships with 4-Year Residency Programs: A National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency medicine (EM) is one of few specialties with variable training lengths. Hiring a three-year graduate to continue fellowship training in a department that supports a four-year residency program can lead to conflicts around resident supervision. We sought to understand hiring and clinical supervision, or staffing, patterns of non-Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) fellowships hosted at institutions supporting four-year residency programs.

Methods

We performed a web-based, cross-sectional survey of non-ACGME fellowship directors (FD) hosted at institutions supporting four-year EM residency programs. We calculated descriptive statistics. Our primary outcome was the proportion of programs with four-year EM residencies that hire non

SUBMITTER: Haidar DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000558 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature